Spring Garden Acre is a blog about our family's gardening adventures. We call our place Spring Garden Acre, because we live on Spring Road with about an acre. We're located in zone 6b of south central PA. We grow peaches, berries, vegetables and keep a few chickens for eggs and meat.

Monday, May 21, 2012

Harvest Monday

We harvested green lettuce, green romaine, green spinach, greens and more greens! I'm surprised we haven't all turned green from eating so much green stuff! I have no idea how Belle's been able to process it all! We also harvested an astounding number of strawberries -a full third of last year's total harvest -in just one week! I should remember that they come in big and fast at first. Then they slow down and get smaller and smaller till they finally stop. But winter was mild, and we were very attentive to the strawberry bed this year with acidic mulch and several organic compost amendments. I'm really hoping for our biggest haul ever in berries this year.

I have flowers and early fruit set but will have to wait impatiently for our first strawberry harvest of the year. Hard part is keeping the slugs off of them in my area. Nasty devils steal all the soft fruit and softer greens.